News
publications in 2025
A review on determinants of clean energy technology adoption
https://doi.org/10.1038/s44359-025-00075-9
A review regarding culture and pro-environmental behavior
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101986
A review on climate change information seeking behavior
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102742
A paper on perception of global norm and climate policy support
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102694
A paper on climate change conspiracy theories and the US-China conflicts
https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.70015
Papers on resilience among Indigenous rice farmers
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103631
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2025.100711
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107111
A paper on coffee supply chain in the Phillipines
https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.70172
Meta-analyses on mental disorders following exposure to natural hazards
https://doi.org/10.1080/20008066.2025.2476809
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102690
News and events in 2025
3-4 October 2025: International Nature Connectedness and Environmental Education Conference.
https://nature.owlhk.org/en/conference
August 2025: Delivered a course on psychology and climate change at Hokkaido University, Japan.
June 2025: Delivered a presentation titled “Global norm of government climate action and public support for domestic climate policies” at The International Conference on Environmental Psychology 2025 at Vilnius, Lithuania
April 2025: Delivered an invited speech titled “Climate resilience: What psychology can offer” at the Psychology Day at the United States. https://psychologycoalitionun.org/
2024 and before
December 2024
⇢ Published a meta-analysis regarding mental disorders following exposure to natural hazards:
Kip, A., Valencia, S., Glunz, E., Lowe, S. R., Tam, K-P., & Morina, N. (2024). Prevalence of mental disorders in adult populations from the Global South following exposure to natural hazards: A meta-analysis. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 33, e68, 1–15.
October 2024
⇢ Presented a talk titled “Truly Recognizing Climate Change as a Global Problem: What it Means for Psychological Research” as a feature speaker in the Closing Plenary Session: Future of Global Psychological Science at the APS Global Psychological Science Summit. https://www.psychologicalscience.org/conventions/global-summit/featured-speakers
August 2024
⇢ Delivered a keynote speech titled “Cross-cultural perspectives on environmental psychology” at the National Scientific Meeting of the Indonesian Association of Social Psychology (Temu Ilmiah Nasional Ikatan Psikologi Sosial XIII 2024) at Bandung, Indonesia.
⇢ Published a paper regarding the development of climate change anxiety:
Chan, H-W., Lin, L., Tam, K-P., & Hong, Y. (2024). From negative feelings to impairments: A longitudinal study on the course of development of climate change anxiety. Journal of Anxiety Disorder, 107, 102917.
⇢ Published a paper regarding the longitudinal relationship between experience of temperature anomalies and belief in climate change conspiracy theories.
Chan, H-W., Wang, X., Tam, K-P., Hong, Y., & Huang, B. (2024). Hotter weather, less of a hoax? Testing the longitudinal association between experience of temperature anomalies and belief in climate change conspiracy theories. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 98, 102409
July 2024
⇢ Published a review on the relationship betewen nature connectedness and wellbeing among children and adolescents:
Barrable, A., Friedman, S., Tam, K-P., & Papadatou-Pastou, M. (2024). Nature connection and wellbeing in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Global Environmental Psychology.
June 2024
⇢ Published a paper proposing and testing an integrated model of climate change anxiety:
Chan, H-W., Tam, K-P., Clayton, S. (2024). Testing an integrated model of climate change anxiety. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 97, 102368.
October 2023
⇢ Published a systematic review of studies on conspiracy theories in the context of climate change:
Tam, K-P., & Chan, H-W. (2023). Conspiracy theories and climate change: A systematic review. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 91, 102129.
September 2023
⇢ Published an article examining the impact of an outdoor exhibition about gibbons on its visitors:
Hui, M. K. Y., & Tam, K-P. (2023). Engaging urban residents in primate conservation: Impact of a conservation education intervention in Hong Kong. Primate Conservation, 37.
May 2023
⇢ Published a four-country study on climate change anxiety:
Tam, K-P., Chan, H-W., & Clayton, S. (2023). Climate change anxiety in China, India, Japan, and the United States. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 87, 101991.
April 2023
⇢ Published a systematic review of studies on the environmental implications of global identity:
Pong, V., & Tam, K-P. (2023). Relationship between global identity and pro-environmental behavior and environmental concern: A systematic review. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1033564.
⇢ Joined the journal PLOS Climate as one of its Academic Editors.